Boyle’s CU scouting report: protect the paint vs. KU

BOULDER — Speaking to the media on Monday following a two-hour CU practice, Buffs coach Tad Boyle gave this scouting report for tonight’s home game against the sixth-ranked Jayhawks:

“You have to take away their (fast-break) transition and you have to make them try to beat you from the outside,” Boyle said.

“The paint, we’ve got to guard the paint because they’re really good inside,” he added. “They throw it to the rim. They have tremendous athletes. That’s not to say they can’t shoot the ball (from outside), they can. But you have to make them beat you from outside with jump shots over your hand.

Terry Frei graduated from Wheat Ridge High School in the Denver area and has degrees in history and journalism from the University of Colorado-Boulder. He worked for the Rocky Mountain News while attending CU and joined the Post staff after graduation. He has also worked at the Oregonian in Portland, Ore., and The Sporting News. His seventh book, March 1939: Before the Madness, was issued in February 2014.